Table of Data Points

Tag : Soviet Union

1943-02-08Soviets take Kursk

Soviet troops enter Kursk.

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1943-01-31Paulus Surrenders

Field Marshal Paulus surrenders the 6th army at Stalingrad and, referring to Hitler's expectations of suicide or holding out to the last man, says "I have no intention of shooting myself for this Austrian corporal".

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1942-12-121942-12-23Winter Storm

Efforts by General Manstein to break through to the encircled 6th army at Stalingrad. Hitler's explicit order that the 6th army not break out of Stalingrad and Paulus's refusal to disobey that order doomed the attempt.

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1942-11-22Sixth Army surrounded

General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.

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1942-11-19Operation Uranus begins

Soviet troops are poised to attack the flanks of the German 6th army besieging Stalingrad. The attacks would strike the poorly equipped and thinly spread Romanian Third Army in the north and the Romanian IV Corps in the south.

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1942-11-191943-01-16Velikiye Luki

The Soviet capture of Velikiye Luki during the winter campaign of 42/43. This was an early example of German failure to support encircled troops that was later exploited at Stalingrad.

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1942-11-01Alagir

The 3rd Panzer Korps captured Alagir.

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1942-10-02Operation Typhoon Begins

Army Group Centre under Fedor von Bock, launched its final offensive towards Moscow, code-named Operation Typhoon. Hitler said soon after its start that "we finally have the possibility to crush our enemy before the winter comes."

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1942-09-16Mamayev Kurgan Recaptured

Soviet 13th Guards Rifle Division arrived in the city from across the river Volga under heavy artillery fire. The division's 10,000 men immediately rushed into the battle. They recaptured Mamayev Kurgan and kept fighting for the railway station.

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1942-09-13Mamayev Kurgan Falls

The Soviets had built strong defensive lines on the slopes of the hill, including trenches, barbed-wire and minefields. The Germans pushed forward against the hill, taking heavy casualties, but eventually taking the heights.

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